There may be a situation whereby, in a Locked production draft, you end up with a few consecutive short pages that need to be combined and show a hyphenated page number.
Example.: Pages 15, 16 and 17 are short pages that need to be combined into one 15-17 page.
Combining the short pages.
The first step is to delete the page breaks that separate the short pages.
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Place the cursor at the Beginning of the Element following the first short page. |
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Press the DELETE key, or under the Edit menu, select Remove Forced Page Break. |
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Screenwriter will display a dialog box that asks, “Delete this Locked Page Break?” Choose Yes. |
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Repeat these steps until all short pages are combined. |
Hyphenating the page numbering.
The next steps is to add Non-Printing Omitted pages at the end of the newly combined page. This will tell the program that there used to be multiple pages occupying the space of the newly combined page.
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Place the cursor at the end of the newly combined page. |
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Press Ctrl+RETURN on the keyboard to add a Non-Printing Omitted page. The page number on the combined page should now be hyphenated (e.g. 15-16, from the example above). Repeat this step until the page number reads correctly (e.g., 15-17). |
NOTE: You can also choose to add an A-Page as the last Non-Printing Omitted page if you want the number after the hyphen to display as such (e.g., 15-17A).
